12 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



research conducted in the Greater and the Lesser Antilles 

 under the joint auspices of the bureau and the Hej^e Museum 

 of New York, as referred to in a previous report. In con- 

 nection with this work Dr. Fewkes Aisited New York for 

 the purpose of stucljnng recently acquired collections, in the 

 Heye Museum, illustrating the culture of the ancient inhabit- 

 ants of the West Indies. 



The greater part of May was devoted by Dr. Fewkes to 

 the (completion of a paper on " Prehistoric Hopi Pottery De- 

 signs," which comprises 138 manuscript pages, 12 plates, and 

 015 figures. In this article the author treats of the pictog- 

 raphy on the ceramics of the ancient village dwellers of the 

 Ivast Mesa of the Hopi of northwestern Arizona, including 

 the Keres and Tewa colonists of early times, as well as the 

 designs of the more modern period. The memoir considers 

 in detail the probable genesis of modern Hopi symbolic fig- 

 ures, and devotes attention also to their connection with clan 

 and other sociologic groups. 



The opening of the fiscal year found Mr. James Mooney, 

 ethnologist, engaged in field studies among the Cherokee 

 Indians of North Carolina, which were continued until the 

 middle of September. Mr. Mooney devoted his efforts es- 

 pecially to the further collection and translation of the 

 sacred formulas of the Indians named, together with the col- 

 lection, for botanical identification, of the plants mentioned 

 in the formulas, with others of Indian economic importance. 

 The remainder of the fiscal year was spent by iMr. Mooney in 

 the office, most of the time being devoted to the final elal)o- 

 ration of the Cherokee formulas, of varying length, originally 

 written down by the priests of the tribe in the native Cherokee 

 alphabet and used by them for piu-poses of medicine, love, 

 hunting, fishing, agriculture, protection, etc. Each formula 

 consists usually of a prayer or a song, or both, in an archaic 

 and highly figurative form of the language, followed by brief 

 directions couched in the everyday language, and relating to 

 the manner of the ceremony or the plants to be used in the 

 prescription. The printed formula will consist of three parts, 

 namely, transliteration, translation, and explanation. The 

 glossary will comprise perhaps 4,000 words, largely archaic 



